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Israel’s overseas ministry stated it had advised the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem to cease providing consular providers to Palestinians from 1 June over Madrid’s recognition of a Palestinian state.

The ministry stated that Spain’s consulate in Jerusalem is “authorised to supply consular providers to residents of the consular district of Jerusalem solely, and isn’t authorised to supply providers or carry out consular exercise vis-a-vis residents of the Palestinian Authority”.

Israel’s overseas minister, Israel Katz, stated in a separate assertion that “immediately, I applied preliminary punitive measures towards the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem following the Spanish authorities’s recognition of a Palestinian state”.

“We won’t put up with harming Israel’s sovereignty and safety.”

Final week, Eire, Spain and Norway introduced they’d formally recognise a Palestinian state on 28 Might, prompting Israel to launch a swift diplomatic counteroffensive to attempt to deter others from recognising Palestine.

The EU members Eire, Spain, Slovenia and Malta had indicated in current weeks that they deliberate to make a recognition announcement. Since 1988, 139 of 193 UN member states have recognised Palestinian statehood.

Lisa O’Carroll is the Guardian’s Brussels correspondent

EU overseas ministers will meet leaders from the Center East in Brussels immediately to debate “revitalise the political course of”, the bloc’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, has stated.

He referred to as on world leaders to “respect” the choice of the worldwide felony courtroom final week which filed functions for warrants for the arrest of Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and Benjamin Netanyahu, a transfer that enraged the Israeli prime minister.

“The prosecutor of the courtroom has been strongly intimidated and accused of antisemitism, as at all times, that everybody does one thing that the Netanyahu authorities doesn’t like,” Borrell stated.

“I feel that the accusation of antisemitism towards the prosecutor of the worldwide felony courtroom is totally not acceptable.”

Overseas ministers will meet the secretary common of the League of Arab States and leaders of Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The EU overseas coverage chief, Josep Borrell, has stated that Israel is pushing forward with navy motion in southern Gaza regardless of a ruling by the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice urging the nation to instantly halt its push.

Borrell stated that the world courtroom ruling have to be applied, forward of a gathering of EU overseas ministers’, including he would additionally work in direction of reaching a political determination on the launch of a devoted EU border help mission for the Rafah border crossing.

Assist teams say they’re “horrified” by an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced folks within the southern metropolis of Rafah that has left not less than 35 folks useless.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stated dozens of useless and injured folks had been dropped at a trauma stabilisation supported by the group.

The help group stated in a publish on X:

We’re horrified by this lethal occasion which reveals as soon as once more that nowhere is secure.

The Hamas-run authorities media workplace in Gaza earlier stated the assault hit a centre run by the UN company for Palestinian refugees close to Rafah, saying it was a “horrific bloodbath”.

Footage from the scene confirmed widespread destruction on the camp with a big hearth overtaking the realm. The Israeli navy stated its air drive struck a Hamas compound and that the strike was carried out with “exact ammunition and on the premise of exact intelligence.”

Israel’s military stated it has killed Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar, each senior officers for the Palestinian militant group within the occupied West Financial institution, experiences Agence France-Presse.

It added that it was:

… conscious of experiences indicating that because of the strike and hearth that was ignited, a number of civilians within the space had been harmed. The incident is below assessment.

Israel’s military stated Sunday not less than eight rockets had been fired in direction of central areas of the nation from Rafah, with strikes focusing on the industrial hub of Tel Aviv for the primary time in months.

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Assist teams say they’re “horrified” by an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced folks within the southern metropolis of Rafah that has left not less than 35 folks useless.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stated dozens of useless and injured folks had been dropped at a trauma stabilisation supported by the group.

The help group stated in a press release:

We’re horrified by this lethal occasion which reveals as soon as once more that nowhere is secure.

Footage from the scene confirmed a big hearth within the space.

Israel’s military stated its plane “struck a Hamas compound in Rafah“, killing Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar, each senior officers for the Palestinian militant group within the occupied West Financial institution, experiences Agence France-Presse.

It added that it was:

… conscious of experiences indicating that because of the strike and hearth that was ignited, a number of civilians within the space had been harmed. The incident is below assessment.

Israel’s military stated on Sunday not less than eight rockets had been fired in direction of central areas of the nation from Rafah, with strikes focusing on the industrial hub of Tel Aviv for the primary time in months.

Extra on that in a second however first, right here’s a abstract of the most recent developments:

• Seventy organisations have referred to as on all related authorities and worldwide establishments to formally declare a famine within the Gaza Strip, the place there’s a fast unfold of famine, in keeping with the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. It stated that meals insecurity is rising throughout the enclave due to Israel’s use of hunger as a “weapon of conflict” towards the Palestinian folks – one thing the organisations say is a part of a genocide. The organisation stated meals safety ranges have considerably declined because of the Israeli military’s offensive in Rafah which started in early Might.

• Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades stated it launched a “large missile” assault on Tel Aviv on Sunday because the Israeli navy sounded sirens within the central metropolis warning of potential incoming rockets. In a press release on its Telegram channel, al-Qassam Brigades stated the rockets had been launched in response to what it referred to as “Zionist massacres towards civilians”. There have been no rapid experiences of casualties or harm in what seemed to be the primary long-range rocket assault from Gaza since January.

• No less than 35,984 Palestinian folks have been killed and 80,643 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza’s well being ministry stated in a press release.

• Amnesty Worldwide on Monday urged the worldwide felony courtroom to analyze as conflict crimes three current Israeli strikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, together with 32 kids. Amnesty stated three Israeli strikes – one on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on 16 April, and two on Rafah in southern Gaza on 19 and 20 April – are “additional proof of a broader sample of conflict crimes” dedicated by the Israeli navy in Gaza, experiences AFP.